A 2D polystyrene colloidal crystal self-assembled on a flat gold surface supports multiple photonic and plasmonic propagating resonance modes. For both classes of modes, the quality factors can exceed 100, higher than the quality factor of surface plasmons (SP) at a polymer–gold interface. The spatial energy distribution of those resonance modes are carefully studied by measuring the optical re...

The phonon dispersion relations of crystal lattices can often be well-described with the harmonic approximation. However, when potential energy landscape exhibits more anharmonicity, for instance, in case a weakly bonded or temperature is raised, approximation fails to capture all lattice dynamics properly. Phonon-phonon scattering mechanisms become important and limit lifetimes. We take novel ...

One of the simplest microscopic models for a thermally driven first-order phase transition is an Ising-type lattice system with nearest-neighbour interactions, an external field, and a degeneracy parameter. The underlying lattice and the interaction coupling constant control the anisotropic energy of the phase boundary, the field strength represents the bulk latent heat, and the degeneracy quan...

Using boundary-integral projections for time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) fields, and their numerical implementation, we analyze EM resonance in slabs of two-phase dielectric photonic crystal materials. We characterize resonant frequencies by a complex Floquet-Bloch dispersion relation ω = W (β) defined by the existence of a nontrivial nullspace of a pair of boundary-integral projections param...

Cerium-doped Tb(3)Al(5)O(12) (TAG:Ce(3+)) colloidal nanocrystals were synthesized by pulsed laser ablation (PLA) in de-ionized water and lauryl dimethylaminoacetic acid betain (LDA) aqueous solution for luminescent bio-labeling application. The influence of LDA molecules on the crystallinity, crystal morphology, crystallite size, and luminescent properties of the prepared TAG:Ce(3+) colloidal n...

The crystal structure solution of modulated compounds is often very challenging, even using the well established methodology of single-crystal X-ray crystallography. This task becomes even more difficult for materials that cannot be prepared in a single-crystal form, so that only polycrystalline powders are available. This paper illustrates that the combined application of transmission electron...

The paper is an introduction to the optimization methods of the linear accelerator cavity control system. Three distinct time periods of cavity operation are considered; filling with the EM field energy, field stabilization for the accelerated beam, and field decay. These periods are considered as different states of the cavity corresponding to adequate solutions of differential equation modeli...

The discovery of pyroelectric X-ray generation in 1992 by Brownridge has led to a recent surge of interest in the use of the pyroelectric effect as a means of producing useful radiation. By heating or cooling a pyroelectric crystal such as lithium tantalate (LiTaO3) in a vacuum, a potential on the order of 100 kV can be generated. This potential is great enough to eject electrons from the cryst...